Was I terrible wrong to do that?!

Hello ladies.
I feel terrible...
So my 11 week old daughter who suffers from acid reflux has been sleeping 7-8 hrs straight at night for the past couple of weeks which has been amazing 😊
However the past few days she's done 5-6 hrs, feed then 2.5hrs. Not so bad still.
But last night, I went to bed at 1130pm. She then woke up at 1am!! (Wasn't crying, just few noises). I checked my phone and she's only been sleeping for 4.5hours. So I rocked her Moses basket and she felt back asleep and didn't wake up until 5am... so she slept 8.5hrs. I waited and as soon as she opened her eyes, I picked her up and fed her!

I feel awful for sending back to sleep when she woke up at 1am. She must have been hungry... it was so selfish of me to do what I did! Only because I wanted an extra hour sleep.

Comments (10)

Please dont beat yourself up, if she was hungry there is no way she would go back to sleep. My lo is woked by his big brother running through during he night and can become figety but will go back to sleep but if he gets woken and realises he is hungry he will let me know. If you are worried offer her a feed if it happens again but i have done this with my lb and he just looks at me cuddles up and goes back to sleep without feeding x

I do this too, my LG wakes up in the night and I bring her into my bed and settle her back to sleep. I do feel really guilty about it sometimes but she would definitely not go back to sleep if she was genuinely hungry

No not at all!! Sometimes my lo wriggles about and stirs during the night. I give him his dummy and put on Ewan the dream sheep. If he was hungry there would be no way he would go back to sleep. Don't worry about it

Don't worry at all. I'd have done (and have done) the same thing. My lo doesn't sleep as well as yours (sigh) but like others have said he would def not go back to sleep if he was still hungry. The other night I had one hand on DD1 and the other on DD2 patting them both back to sleep lol!

Don't be daft OP (original poster) you're doing the right thing! If she was really hungry she wouldn't be easily rocked back to sleep, she'd start crying for it. I do the same with DD, she tends to stir at around 3-4am I give her a dummy and stroke her belly till she falls back asleep, then she has her first morning feed sometime between 5:30-6:30am

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